A few years ago, I took this super sweet picture of my oldest 3 children looking into the fireplace at the warm glow of our first fire of that season. It was a perfect memory of their amazement of the fire and the peace that that moment brought. It’s a picture of calm and good feeling, which is what I saw when I decided to snap the picture.
Do you want to see how my living room actually looked at that exact moment???
That is not a living room of calmness, peacefulness, or good feelings now is it? It’s chaos. It’s an eyesore. It’s definitely not perfect.
It is, though, a perfect example of why you shouldn’t compare your life to someone else’s Facebook posts. Facebook can be a highlight reel.
We don’t have perfect kids, perfect lives, or perfect houses.
That doesn’t mean we don’t have perfect moments.
Look for them. They are there. But if you get too caught up in the imperfections, you’ll miss it all.
I walked by and saw beauty in my kids sitting in front of the fire. I had to look past the laundry that needs folding, the toys strung about the floor, and the dirtiness that needs cleaned to see that beauty, though. It’s something I am finally learning to do. I hope you see beauty around you, no matter how messy the rest is.